Abstract: Bacground: The growing severity level of cyberbullying in educational institutions and other social sphere in Bangladesh call for serious consideration to our educators, researchers, administrator and authorities. Principal objectives of this study are to explore the pros and cons of the nature of cyberbullying victimization as well as to focus on the aftermath of cyberbullying with female university students in Bangladesh.
Materials and Method: Exponential non-discriminative snowball sampling technique was used to explore the samples. All of the respondents were female and students aged 18-22years. Most of the respondents were undergrad students. Primary data were used in this study. Data were collected through in-depth interview from the cyberbullied victims from Khulna division in Bangladesh....
Key words: Cyberbullying, victimization, social dominance, nature, aftermath
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